Baroness Walmsley: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What consideration is being given in the current Comprehensive Spending Review to the United Kingdom's obligations under the Conventionon the Rights of the Child, in particular the recommendations in 2002 of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Lord Blaker: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How European Union battle groups are compared; and what is their function.

Lord Triesman: The UK has found no evidence of detainees being rendered through the UK or the overseas territories since 1997, where there were substantial grounds to believe there was a real risk of torture. Additionally, we have no evidence that the US Government have rendered any detainee through UK territory or airspace, including the overseas territories, during the present US Administration, i.e. since January 2001. We are clear that the US would not render a detainee through UK territory or airspace, including the overseas territories, without our permission. We would grant such permission only if we were satisfied that the rendition would accord with UK law and our international obligations.
	Neither the secretary-general of the Council of Europe's reports of 28 February and 14 May 2006 on the question of secret detention and transport of detainees suspected of terrorist acts nor the recent report of the European Parliament on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners has provided any new evidence in respect of the UK. We do not propose to ascertain these details routinely in the absence of any such evidence of unlawful actions in our territory or airspace.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: In addition to the representation from the Chair of the National Information Forum referred to in my previous reply, a further representation was made by Lord Morris of Manchester toMrs Anne McGuire, the Minister for Disabled People at the Department of Work and Pensions, on 2 October 2006. I understand that his letter was followed up by a meeting on 10 October 2006.